Broscience – taking the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes at your gym or online and considering them more credible than actual scientific research….
“hey brah, I eat every thirty minutes to prevent my body from going into starvation mode…”
“hey brah, I don’t eat carbs after 6pm because it will just turn to fat…”
Nutritional Dogma – repeating nutritional fallacies without any scientific basis…
“don’t eat cholesterol or you will die of a heart attack…”
“don’t eat steak or you will get cancer…”
“don’t eat carbs or you will spike your insulin and you will get fat…”
I remember the good old days when you could ask a question, and politely get the answer you were hoping to get! What happened? And what is all this scientific evidence crap. I remember the good old days when you could just look at someone’s avatar and know for certain that what they were saying about muscle protein synthesis, fatty acid oxidation, etc, was 100% correct.
And what really gets me is how people can’t just give black & white simple answers on stuff like, “what’s the best dose of dextrose post-workout?”… I mean, all it takes is posting a number, not some smart-ass remark about how it’s not needed. I don’t like to hear that stuff, especially after memorizing the rules I’ve learned from magazines, and various buff guys at my gym. If I want to know what’s better for me between brown rice or white rice, why can’t people just tell me what I’ve always heard the big guys say?
What really REALLY bugs me is how everything has to have some sort of evidence beyond anecdote. Why can’t someone tell me whether Body for Life or P90X is the best program? Both of those have the best anecdotal evidence other than the ads in Flex magazine. Just look how ripped & built the spokespeople of those programs are. I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that those guys are doing it right! Discussions about how the body works don’t need no PubMed. All it takes is just sharing with each other what works for us & our buddies at the gym. THAT is true knowledge of how the body works.
I just wish this forum could get back to the good old days when you could post a question asking how many minutes you can wait to eat your post-workout meal before the catabolisms come, and you could get a simple answer like, “15 minutes bro, works for me”, or “I respectfully disagree bro, 10 minutes and I’m already shrinking”… I just wish that I could ask a question like whether it’s okay to have white potatoes once a week instead of sweet potatoes. A simple yes or no will do, but instead people will post a bunch of sciency stuff & tell me that I can go with personal preference. Anybody else with me on this, or am I the only one?
– Alan Aragon (BB.com forums)
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